Criminal justice clients in Sandia often end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were dealing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Some courts put these types of persons into the drug and alcohol treatment system mainly due to the fact that they feel that rehabbing these persons is more productive for society and for the person, rather than placing them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been proven to be quite effective not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Sandia, but also in keeping them abstinent and in many cases out of the criminal justice system once and for all.