Criminal justice clients in Hawthorne often end up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many courts put these convicted individuals into the drug rehab system because they feel that rehabbing these individuals will be more effective for society and for the person, rather than sending them behind bars with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be very successful not only in healing and rehabilitating this type of client in Hawthorne, but also in keeping them sober and in many situations out of the criminal justice system for good.