Criminal justice clients in Alamosa often end up in alcohol and drug treatment programs because they were found guilty of drug related crimes, whether they were selling drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Some judges put these criminal persons into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation system because they feel that treating them will be more productive for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than putting them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been verified to be quite successful not only in healing and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Alamosa, but also in helping them remain off of drugs and in a lot of cases out of the criminal justice system for good.