Criminal justice clients in Idaho Springs often end up in drug and alcohol treatment programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Some courts put these convicted persons into the alcohol and drug rehab system because they consider that rehabilitating them will be more productive for society and for the individual, rather than putting them behind bars with no rehab at all. This has been proven to be quite successful not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Idaho Springs, but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of cases away from the criminal justice system once and for all.