The Limon Correctional Facility remains under lockdown after a man serving a life sentence “physically assaulted” a female supervisor in the prison.
The injured corrections employee was taken to a hospital in Hugo and then transferred by Flight for Life to a Denver area hospital, said Katherine Sanguinetti, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman.
Officials did not release the name or age of the assault victim.
The victim was flown to Denver as a precaution, Sanguinetti said, and “her injuries are not life-threatening.”
Corrections officials identified the suspect in the assault as 40-year-old Allen Thomas Jr.
Thomas is serving a life sentence for the 1991 murder of a 71-year-old grandmother, Leah Mae Bratsch.
Thomas was convicted of breaking into Bratsch’s two-story house in north Aurora. He went there to rob the home and wound up raping her and slitting her throat. Thomas was also convicted in 1993 of sex assault, burglary and robbery in the case.
After the assault Wednesday, Thomas was transferred to the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, Sanguinetti said.
The Limon assault is under investigation by the corrections department.
Staff writer Kieran Nicholson can be reached at 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
