Limon Correctional Facility, Colorado

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

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

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.[2]
  • In October 2002, inmate Edward Montour Jr. beat correctional officer Eric Autobee to death in the facility's kitchen.[3]
  • 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.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • Inmate Joshua Edwards died of undisclosed causes in early June 2015;[6] only at the end of August did autopsy results show that Edwards had been stabbed in the neck and strangled to death. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Victim Handbook / guide to services" (PDF). Colorado Department of Corrections. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ↑ Pendergrast, Kurt (19 December 2002). "Death on the Installment Plan". Denver Westword. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eric Autobee Officer Down Biography". Officer Down Memorial Page. Unknown Publish Date. Retrieved 8 March 2018. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ "DA seeks death penalty for inmates in Limon prison stabbing death". Summit (County) Press. Associated Press. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Mitchell, Kirk (20 Dec 2008). "Officer Kahanic Returns to Prison After Attack". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Mitchell, Kirk (6 June 2015). "Colorado agents investigate inmate's death at Limon high security prison". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  7. ↑ Mitchell, Kirk (27 August 2015). "Limon inmate stabbed in neck, strangled to death, autopsy finds". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.

Coordinates: 39°13′05″N 103°41′31″W / 39.217925°N 103.691990°W / 39.217925; -103.691990

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