Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who are currently taking part in alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Attleboro and across the nation. Judicial systems around the country often find it more effective to treat men and women who have found their way into the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It is proven to be more successful to deal with the problem of addiction directly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. Most who do not make their way to drug and alcohol rehabilitation will often turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying sober and out of the court system completely.