Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who are currently taking part in drug and alcohol rehab programs in Windber and across the nation. Judicial systems in the U.S. often find it more advantageous to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, instead of penalizing them in vain with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more successful to deal with the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not wind up in alcohol and drug rehab will often turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system completely.