Limon Correctional Facility

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]

^ "Victim Handbook / guide to services" (PDF). Colorado Department of Corrections. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ Pendergrast, Kurt (19 December 2002). "Death on the Installment Plan". Denver Westword. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ "Eric Autobee Officer Down Biography". Officer Down Memorial Page. n.d. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
^ "DA seeks death penalty for inmates in Limon prison stabbing death". Summit (County) Press. Associated Press. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ Mitchell, Kirk (20 Dec 2008). "Officer Kahanic Returns to Prison After Attack". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ Mitchell, Kirk (6 June 2015). "Colorado agents investigate inmate's death at Limon high security prison". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ Mitchell, Kirk (27 August 2015). "Limon inmate stabbed in neck, strangled to death, autopsy finds". Denver Post. Retrieved 21 August 2016.

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