Criminal justice clients in Pine Valley, California often end up in alcohol and drug rehab programs due to the fact 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 convicted individuals into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they consider that rehabilitating these persons is more helpful for society and for the individual, rather than placing them in prison with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be quite effective not only in healing and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Pine Valley, but also in keeping them abstinent and in many cases out of the criminal justice system once and for all.