Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who take part in drug rehabilitation programs in Northridge, California and in the USA. Judicial systems in the U.S. often find it more advantageous to treat people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to tackle the issue of addiction directly, rather than enforce these sorts of penalties. The majority of individuals who do not wind up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will frequently turn right back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehab often don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying sober and away from the court system completely.