Criminal justice clients in Tecate, California often end up in drug and alcohol treatment facilities 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. Some judges put these convicted individuals into the drug treatment system because they believe that rehabbing these persons will be more effective for society and for the person, rather than putting them in jail with no rehab at all. This has been verified to be quite successful not only in healing and rehabbing this type of client in Tecate, but also in keeping them off of drugs and in a number of instances away from the criminal justice system for good.