Hover and Indian Oaks residents want the new 884-cell men's correctional structure to be built in another part of Sumter County, away from nearby housing developments.

Bureau of Prison officials have told residents they need the new building to house 1,000 inmates that are part of the nation's prison over-population. Prison officials say they will plant trees and build berms to shield a portion of the new prison from the subdivision.

Hover's suit seeks an injunction that would immediately halt construction and allow residents and prison officials to confer on other possible construction sites. The suit alleges Bureau of Prison officials misled residents in 1992 by saying it would only build a single penitentiary and four low-security risk buildings on the Country Road 500 site.