Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in drug rehabilitation programs in Columbus and in the USA. Judicial systems in the U.S. often find it more effective to rehab people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more successful to address the issue of drug addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not make their way to drug rehabilitation will typically wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehab frequently don't make the same mistakes and have a better chance at remaining sober and out of the court system completely.