MONTREAL

Smoothies, suntanning, pizza parties, music, movies, fitness, facials, and fantasies about sex with British royalty and Hollywood hunks.

Hard time seems to suit murderer Luka Magnotta just fine -- at least according to his jailhouse letters.

"Our doors are open 90% 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 Magnotta instructed to be put in a stamped envelope and sent 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 e-mail to the 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.

The pictures also show the killer posing by his artwork and posters, including one of Marilyn Monroe, on the walls of his cell, which looks more like a dorm room.

Magnotta, who was born Eric Clint Kirk Newman, describes learning French and his many other educational opportunities.

If Magnotta has done any reflection or feels any remorse for killing and carving up Lin, he doesn't mention it in the handwritten letters the Sun obtained. Nor does he offer an explanation for his heinous crimes.

In fact, he describes himself as mostly enjoying a blissful summer camp-like experience behind bars at Archambault Institution, 40 minutes northwest of Montreal. Sources say he was recently transferred from the medium-security prison to the maximum-security Port-Cartier prison, which a friend says he likes even more because it's bigger and has more amenities.

Aside from complaints about some guards and doctors -- and the chocolate selection -- he seemed to enjoy his time at Archambault.

In fact, he ends his upbeat letters with farewell messages like: "Love Forever your delicious Little Cupcake XOXOXOXO."