Criminal justice clients in Olney Springs often end up in drug treatment programs due to the fact 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 judges put these types of persons into the drug rehabilitation system because they consider that rehabilitating these persons will be more effective for the culture at large and for the person, rather than placing them behind bars with no rehab at all. This has been established to be incredibly successful not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Olney Springs, but also in keeping them off of drugs and in a number of cases out of the criminal justice system for good.