Criminal justice clients in Cortez make their way into alcohol and 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 high on drugs. Many courts put these convicted persons into the drug treatment system because they feel that treating these persons will be more productive for society and for the person, rather than putting them in jail with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be extremely workable not only in healing and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Cortez, but also in helping them stay off of drugs and in a lot of cases away from the criminal justice system permanently.