NEWS UPDATE: Judge orders halt to expansion of Alligator Alcatraz

Everglades prison camp can keep functioning, but workers are barred from further construction for at least the next two weeks

NEWS UPDATE

A federal judge in Miami, after two days of hearings, has issued a temporary restraining order barring any further construction at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant prison camp in the Everglades.

The detainment facility may continue operating, the judge ruled, but no new filling, paving or infrastructure may take place for the next t…