Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who are currently taking part in drug treatment programs in Winfield, Iowa and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to rehabilitate men and women who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It is proven to be more successful to tackle the problem of drug addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not wind up in drug and alcohol treatment will typically wind 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 staying abstinent and out of the court system for good.