Criminal justice clients in Plainwell, Michigan often end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were dealing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Many courts put these criminal persons into the alcohol and drug treatment system mainly due to the fact that they consider that rehabilitating them is 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 these criminal justice clients in Plainwell, Michigan, but also in keeping them sober and in a lot of cases away from the criminal justice system permanently.