Criminal justice clients in Karlstad, MN. make their way into drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities due to the fact they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were high on drugs. Many judges put these criminal persons into the drug rehab system mainly due to the fact that they believe that rehabilitating these persons will be more effective for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than sending them in jail with no rehab at all. This has been verified to be quite workable not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Karlstad, MN., but also in helping them remain off of drugs and in many cases away from the criminal justice system for good.