Luigi Mangione was on “constant watch” after his arrest in Pennsylvania last year in part because the state prison where he was held wanted to avoid an “Epstein-style situation,” a corrections officer testified at a pretrial hearing Monday .

Mangione is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year. He has pleaded not guilty to nine state counts and four federal charges.

The corrections officer’s testimony referred to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting prosecution on sex-trafficking charges. Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide.

“I had to fill out a form about (Mangione’s) movements about seven times an hour,” Tomas Rivers, a former Pennsylvania Department of Corrections emp

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