Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug rehab facilities in Batavia, New York and across the nation. Judges around the country are finding it more helpful to treat people who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, instead of punishing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the problem of drug addiction more straightforwardly, rather than enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug rehabilitation will frequently turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug treatment often don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.