Criminal justice clients in Oakdale, California make their way into alcohol and drug rehab centers because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Many courts put these convicted persons into the drug rehab system mainly due to the fact that they feel that rehabilitating them is more helpful for society and for the person, rather than putting them behind bars with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be incredibly effective not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Oakdale, but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of cases away from the criminal justice system for good.