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.

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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

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