It appears Luigi Mangione won’t have a cellmate to chat up as he’s held in a rural central Pennsylvania detention center. Authorities at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon told the Daily Beast on Tuesday that the now-infamous murder suspect—who evaded authorities for five days after the cold-blooded slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—is being “single-celled” and is “under maximum security.” The facility, which sits on the Juniata River in the heart of the sparsely populated Huntingdon County, did not specify if he’s been placed under suicide watch or not. Mangione isn’t expected to call SCI Huntingdon home for too long, however. He’s slated to attend an extradition hearing on Monday afternoon that may soon see him headed back to New York City, where the 50-year-old Thompson was gunned down on a busy Manhattan sidewalk last week. Mangione, a Maryland native who graduated from the Ivy League’s University of Pennsylvania, has been charged with second-degree murder. He also faces related gun and forgery charges in New York City and in Pennsylvania.
