--- title: "ICE Reveals Horrific Plan to Outfit Agents With Electrocution Torture Gloves" description: "The Department of Homeland Security revealed plans to buy thousands of electrocuting gloves for ICE agents." date: "2026-08-12" modified: "2026-08-12" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/ice-outfit-agents-electrocution-torture-gloves" categories: - "Future Society" --- # ICE Reveals Horrific Plan to Outfit Agents With Electrocution Torture Gloves ![A photo illustration of the Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter gloves.]() *Complaint / Shutterstock / Futurism* The good guys protecting us from people who want to work and live here will continue their morally upright quest by electrocuting their foes into submission. As the [*Associated Press* reports](), the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is planning to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of "conductive distraction and de-escalation devices" that officers and agents can wear in the field to zap anyone they don't like. The devices are called GLOVEs, short for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. Their manufacturer, Compliant Technologies, says that they behave like normal gloves until activated with a switch, and need to make direct contact with someone's skin. The painful shock they administer can help an ICE agent "gain compliance within seconds," per the *AP*'s reporting, citing the company. "It's immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting," John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, who's studying how the device is being used, told the *AP*. "If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool." These plans were disclosed in a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, which states that the devices would be delivered by the end of next March. It's unclear exactly how many the DHS intends to buy, or how long it will be until agents would start using them. The news has left left civil rights advocates horrified. "ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do," Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the American Civil Liberties Union, told the *AP*. "Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public." "This is a rogue agency with an $80 billion slush fund that allows them to concoct and fund new ways to visit cruelty upon our communities," Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center, [told *CNN*](), calling the the possible use of the gloves "disgusting and barbaric." Naively, or simply to exonerate itself of any future wrongdoing, Compliance Technologies warns that its capital-G GLOVEs should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting "verbal defiance or belligerence" or on children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people, per the *AP*. Of course, it knows fully well the kind of customer it's getting in bed with. ICE agents have repeatedly [put children in harm's way]() and [beat teenagers](), used force to [capture pregnant women](), and [body-slammed elderly citizens]() — which is to say nothing of the people they've also shot and killed. We've already seen how regular law enforcement can misuse the devices. In 2022, two corrections officers at the Laurens County Detention Center in South Carolina [were arrested and charged]() with brutalizing an inmate and using a GLOVE device to repeatedly stun them, *CNN* noted. **More on law enforcement:** [*Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()