Limon Correctional Facility

The Limon Correctional Facility is a Level IV, mixed-custody Colorado state prison for men, located in Limon, Lincoln County, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections.

Limon Correctional Facility
Location49030 CO-71
Limon, Colorado
Statusopen
Security classmixed, including maximum
Capacity960
Opened1991
Managed byColorado Department of Corrections

History

The facility opened in 1991, and houses a stated maximum of 960 prisoners.[1]

Prisoner life

Education

In 2019, a campus of the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary was established in the prison. [2]

Incidents

Limon houses some of the state's most dangerous inmates.

  • In 2001 42-year-old inmate David Alonzo slipped and fell in his cell, and was dead three days later from an infected arm injury.[3]
  • In October 2002, inmate Edward Montour Jr. beat correctional officer Eric Autobee to death in the facility's kitchen.[4]
  • On March 28, 2004, inmate Jeffrey Heird was stabbed to death multiple times by other inmates, two of whom were charged with the death penalty for the attack.[5]
  • On September 12, 2007, an inmate cut the throat of corrections officer Pam Kahanic with a box cutter knife. Kahanic survived the attack and was back at work within six weeks.[6]
  • Inmate Joshua Edwards died of undisclosed causes in early June 2015;[7] only at the end of August did autopsy results show that Edwards had been stabbed in the neck and strangled to death. [8]

Notable inmates

References
  1. "Victim Handbook / guide to services" (PDF). Colorado Department of Corrections. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. D. L. Jones, The Need for Changing Prison Culture, mabts.edu, USA, Jul 6, 2022
  3. Pendergrast, Kurt (19 December 2002). "Death on the Installment Plan". Denver Westword. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  4. "Eric Autobee Officer Down Biography". Officer Down Memorial Page. n.d. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  5. "DA seeks death penalty for inmates in Limon prison stabbing death". Summit (County) Press. Associated Press. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  6. Mitchell, Kirk (20 Dec 2008). "Officer Kahanic Returns to Prison After Attack". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  7. Mitchell, Kirk (6 June 2015). "Colorado agents investigate inmate's death at Limon high security prison". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  8. Mitchell, Kirk (27 August 2015). "Limon inmate stabbed in neck, strangled to death, autopsy finds". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  9. https://www.fox13memphis.com/trending_archives/army-vet-sentenced-to-life-in-brutal-1987-torture-murder-of-female-fort-carson-soldier/article_e3756861-5ec0-59ed-bf00-191488bf506b.html

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