Limon Correctional Facility

The facility opened in 1991 and houses a stated maximum of 960 prisoners. ==Prisoner life==

Education In 2019, a campus of the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary 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 died 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 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==

• Robert Charles Browne - serving two life sentences for the murders of two teenage girls in Colorado Springs, Colorado, committed in 1987 and 1991, respectively. • 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. ==References==