Criminal justice clients in Bourg, LA. often end up in drug treatment centers because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many courts put these criminal individuals into the drug and alcohol rehab system mainly due to the fact that they consider that rehabilitating these individuals is more helpful for society and for the individual, rather than putting them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be very effective not only in helping and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Bourg, LA., but also in helping them remain off of drugs and in many instances out of the criminal justice system permanently.