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

Location	49030 CO-71 Limon, Colorado
Status	open
Security class	mixed, including maximum
Capacity	960
Opened	1991
Managed by	Colorado 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 died 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

• Robert Charles Browne - serving two life sentences for the murders of two teenage girls in Colorado Springs, Colorado, committed in 1987 and 1991, respectively.^[9]
• Freddie Glenn - Murdered actor Kelsey Grammer's sister, Karen. Transferred to Colorado State Penitentiary.
• Michael David Whyte - Former Fort Carson army vet who tortured and murdered fellow vet Darlene Krashoc in 1987.^[10]