Inside CEO ‘killer’ Luigi Mangione’s new year in ‘windowless cell as he’s forced to pick between shower & workout’
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LUIGI Mangione's start to 2025 is grim in a small cell in a notorious rat-infested jail, where he's allegedly forced to pick between taking a shower and working out. The accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson remains locked up in New York's Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
![[Luigi Mangione is escorted by police after being charged over the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/luigi-mangione-suspect-fatal-shooting-960826117.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He is currently being held in solitary confinement within the Special Housing Unit, known as the SHU, and is not yet allowed to mix with other prisoners, including P Diddy, who is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Mangione is facing two separate indictments related to the December 4 shooting in Midtown Manhattan and could still spend months in the Brooklyn jail.
![[The Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where Luigi Mangione is in custody in Brooklyn, New York City]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/luigi-mangione-custody-brooklyn-new-958829503.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It is plagued with inmate death and violence, rodents, raw sewage, understaffing, and a deteriorating infrastructure. Sam Mangel, a prison consultant who has clients at the Metropolitan Detention Center, spoke exclusively to The U.S. Sun about Mangione's jail conditions.
![[Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment on state murder and terror charges]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/luigi-mangione-appears-manhattan-criminal-959490957.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He said, "You're in a six-by-nine cell with two beds or a bunk bed, a one-piece toilet and sink, a small desk, and maybe a little foot locker. "There may or may not be a window and you are locked in there 23 out of 24 hours. "Your meals are given to you through a slot in the door.
![[Surveillance video captured the moment a masked, hooded gunman assassinated Brian Thompson as he arrived at the Hilton hotel for an investor conference]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/12/AP24339777255955.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"If you're on a psychiatric evaluation, you're monitored every 15 to 30 minutes to make sure that you haven't harmed yourself. The only time you're not shackled is when you're physically locked in the shower.". "Depending upon the severity of the evaluation, and I don't know that he's currently on this, he would be placed in a suicide smock, which is what you saw him in when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.
![[Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was executed outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan on the morning of December 4]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/12/NINTCHDBPICT000954515937.jpg?strip=all&w=642)
