A guard tower at the new Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on Friday, Apr. 10, 2015. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) ...

thoughtfully crafted letters can provide crucial emotional support and help preserve relationships during separation.

He is making some wild claims in leaked letters from prison that seem to show he has learned no lessons and feels no remorse.

Stephen Port, a notorious serial killer with a peculiar interest in children's films like Transformers, wrote letters from prison boasting about his alleged intelligence. Unbeknownst to him ...

A letter sent to a Congressional Representative by Ross Ulbricht about his impending release from prison moved the Representative to tears.

The letters, marked as being from inmates ... did suspect and found 330 pages of drug-coated paper; a move that left the board "reassured the prison is diligent in tracking down illicit items".

I was just another one that had taken on a prison number — a letter with five digits — so ... I responded to the mail the paper received from all over the state prison system.