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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sara Braun

Alarm over $20m plan to supply ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

Federal agents stand guard outside Delaney Hall
Federal agents stand outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey in May. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

Plans to supply Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with special gloves that can deliver electric shocks have alarmed experts and drawn scrutiny amid some high-profile lawsuits over their use in local correctional facilities.

In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the man’s widow is suing authorities.

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