Limon Correctional Facility

History

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

In 2019, a campus of the Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary was established in the prison.

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 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.

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.