Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who are currently taking part in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Quitman, Georgia and in the USA. Judicial systems around the country often find it more helpful to treat people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, instead of punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more effective to tackle the issue of addiction more straightforwardly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug rehab generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at remaining sober and out of the court system for good.