text: What is the point of your recitation?  
  High rates of prison cidivism can be attributed to the lack of rehabilitative services for those who are incarcerated and a lack of rehabilitative services for those released from incarceration.  This is an inheritance from the Nixon and Reagan eras, continued by Newt Gingrich and others.  
  When people are provided with little or no rehabilitation in prison and then are thrown back into the same situation in which they were in when they previously committed crimes then, yes, they are likely to re-offend.