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Michael Douglas said his son Cameron Douglas (r.) was put in solitary confinement after being caught dealing drugs in prison.
Hollywood superstar Michael Douglas took home an Emmy for his acting ability Sunday night - but it was his frank criticism of the U.S. prison system that won raves.
Douglas, 68, who's battled throat cancer and now is separated from wife Catherina Zeta-Jones, said he's devastated that he's not being allowed to visit his oldest son Cameron Douglas, currently serving 10 years in federal prison for drug dealing.
The 35-year-old was sentenced to five years in 2010 after he was caught peddling heroin out of a New York hotel room. In 2011, he got another 4 1/2 years after he was caught with drugs in prison — and according to his dad, he also got tossed into solitary confinement.
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Cameron Douglas was serving his sentence in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, PA, before being transferred to a medium-security prison in Maryland.
He got nabbed for using again in January, and was transferred from his low security facility in Pennsyvlania to a medium-security one in western Maryland, prison records show. Douglas and his ex-wife Diandra Luker, Cameron's mother, said they are not allowed to visit him in prison as part of his punishment.
"He's spent almost two years in solitary confinement. Right now I've been told that I can't see him for two years. It's been over a year now. And I'm questioning the system," Douglas said Sunday night backstage at the Emmys. He'd given his son a "shout out" moments earlier in his acceptance speech when he won an Emmy for his portrayal of Liberace for an HBO special.
"I'm hoping ... (they'll) allow me to see him soon," the dapper Douglas said.
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Douglas gave Cameron a shout out as he accepted the Emmy award for his role in 'Behind The Candelabra.'
A spokesman for the federal prison system declined to comment on Cameron Douglas's terms of incarceration. But he said prison administrators are allowed to cancel visiting privileges when prisoners break laws while in federal custody.
Anthony Papa, a spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance, a prison reform group, said he believes Cameron Douglas is getting harsher than usual treatment.
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Matt Damon (l.) and Michael Douglas played gay lovers Scott Thorson and Liberace in ‘Behind the Candelabra.’
"They threw the book at him. They wanted to make an example of him and it's totally over the top," said Papa, whose organization wrote a brief in support of Douglas when he unsuccessfully appealed the extra sentence he got for drug possession.
Papa said it was "brave" of Douglas to share his family's trial
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