The British Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has submitted a bid for a £5.9 million ($9 million) contract to help run prisons in Saudi Arabia, despite human rights concerns.
The contract is “to conduct a training needs analysis across all the learning and development programs within the Saudi Arabian Prison Service,” according to the Guardian.
Just Solutions international (JSi), the new commercial branch of the MoJ, has submitted a bid to the Royal Oman Police to build a prison in Oman. Last year it won a £848,000 contract to support the development of a Probation Service in Macedonia.
This move comes amid criticism from UK human rights groups about the country’s justice system.
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