With respect to the treatment of sexual offenders in the federal system, the cuts have been to eliminate psychologists altogether from providing treatment services. It was the background of training...I don't know that it matters that it was a psychologist, but it was someone with at least a master's degree or a Ph.D. and an educational background sufficient to implement effective treatment. They've taken them out of that loop altogether, and they're replacing them with people who will have a two-week training program with no necessary educational background to run the programs.
What we know about the treatment of sexual offenders is that if you run it like a cookbook, where people without much skill just deliver it as more or less psychoeducation, it has almost no impact at all. If you have sophisticated therapists, then the effects are remarkable.