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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is buying up to $20 million worth of gloves that can allow agents to issue a painful electric shock to force people into compliance, granting the agency yet another tool as it extrajudicially abducts and kills people across the country.

According to a notice posted by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, ICE is planning to spend between $10 million and $20 million on the gloves. The product is made by a Kentucky-based company known as Compliant Technologies LLC, and is called the “Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter,” or the G.L.O.V.E.

The devices look like a normal pair of work gloves and are described by the company as an “invisible partner” and “force multiplier” for law enforcement. When the electric shock function is turned on with a button on the back of the glove, an officer can then administer a shock by laying hands on the subject’s bare skin.

This can force a subject to comply within seconds, Compliant Technologies claims.

“It’s immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting,” Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths President John Peters told The Associated Press. Peters’s organization has been studying the device. “If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective........

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