Criminal justice clients in Carolina often end up in drug and alcohol rehab programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were dealing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Some judges put these convicted individuals into the drug treatment system because they feel that rehabbing these individuals will be more helpful for society and for the person, rather than placing them in prison with no rehab at all. This has been verified to be incredibly successful not only in healing and rehabilitating this type of client in Carolina, but also in helping them stay off of drugs and in a number of situations out of the criminal justice system once and for all.