Criminal justice clients in Brownsville, CA. often end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were under the influence of drugs. Many judges put these criminal individuals into the drug rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they believe that rehabilitating these individuals is more helpful for society and for the individual, rather than placing them in prison with no rehabilitation at all. This has been proven to be quite successful not only in treating and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Brownsville, California, but also in helping them remain off of drugs and in a lot of situations away from the criminal justice system permanently.