For some reason, cash-strapped state legislators looking to cut money from every corner of the budget they can find, ignore the possibility of shutting down prisons and scaling back big government in the law and order department.

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And the CBI said many businesses were scaling back on agency workers because of the extra cost of the new law, which should be "setting alarm bells" through Whitehall.

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