Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Watertown, South Dakota and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. often find it more effective to treat men and women who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to deal with the issue of addiction directly, than to enforce these sorts of penalties. Most individuals who do not make their way to drug rehab will frequently turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug rehab often don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and out of the court system completely.