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“He has hundreds of fans,” the friend told the Toronto Sun. “But there are about 15 or so who he lets in.”

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“Our doors are open 90 percent of the time, so for me I feel like I’m in a university setting,” he wrote in one of many letters to a friend.

Magnotta is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years for killing and hacking up Jun Lin, 33, in Montreal, then mailing his body parts across the country.

These days he mails letters, lots of them.

“He is a prolific writer of letters to friends,” explains a friend who’s received personal letters and letters he was instructed to put in a stamped envelope and send to others.

In his most recent correspondence to the friend, the 33-year-old killer writes of working seven days in the prison kitchen and then relaxing with art, music, sports and reading.

“I just bought Celine Dion’s album and a lot of others. I have a stereo and a portable for when I suntan outside.”

Correctional Service of Canada would not comment on Magnotta specifically, but said in an email to the Toronto Sun that inmates are allowed certain amenities such as TVs and stereos.

Federal inmates are also allowed to wear their own clothes, “provided they are approved by the institutional head,” a spokesman wrote.

Exclusive pictures from inside prison show a relaxed Magnotta dressed in casual clothes, including a Versace shirt and stylish sunglasses, with ear buds, surrounded by other inmates, including pedophile Jonathan Lafrance-Rivard.