A federal judge halted further construction on the notoriously dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in response to a lawsuit citing the prison’s risks to environmental diversity and Native American heritage. In addition to threatening endangered species like the Florida panther and bonneted bat, the prison impinges on the Miccosukee Tribe’s deep cultural and spiritual connections to the land surrounding the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, where the detention center was built. The temporary injunction, issued by Judge Kathleen Williams of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, pauses further building activity for the next two weeks. The order, however, does not suspend operations at the tented facility, where hundreds of detainees face what have been described as inhumane conditions made worse by life-threatening flooding and mosquito infestations. A separate civil rights lawsuit against the facility alleges that detainees are being imprisoned w...