The Limon Correctional Facility is a Level IV, mixed-custody

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for men, located in Limon,

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, owned and operated by the

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History

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

Prisoner life

Education

In 2019, a campus of the

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was established in the prison.

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

Notable inmates

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- Murdered actor

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's sister, Karen. Transferred to

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. *Michael David Whyte - Former Fort Carson army vet who tortured and murdered fellow vet Darlene Krashoc in 1987.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

References

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