It should have been a triumphant night for Michael Douglas when he won the Emmy Award for Behind the Candelabra last month. But his victory speech was marred by the somber admission that he is desperate to see his incarcerated son, Cameron, who is locked away in solitary confinement at the Federal Corrections Institute in Cumberland, Maryland. "He's spent almost two years in solitary confinement," Michael said at the Emmys of his son, a former drug dealer. "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." Now, activist Tony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance has started a new campaign to pressure Attorney General Eric Holder to allow Cameron and Michael to reunite, and for other families with incarcerated loved ones to do so as well.

"Every father should be able to see his imprisoned son," Papa, an advocate for Cameron, tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. "At first, Michael blamed his son for the mess he got into, but now, he is questioning the Bureau of Prisons and asking why he is being prevented from visiting his son for two years. Prison does not end at the prison wall… It severely affects the family members and loved ones of those who are incarcerated. Michael Douglas is being punished for his son's drug addiction."

Papa has started a Change.org petition explaining Cameron's position and asking Attorney General Eric Holder and John Caraway, the warden of Cameron's prison, for relief.

Cameron "is currently serving nine and a half years of hard time for a nonviolent drug conviction and is being punished because of his drug addiction," Papa writes.

In April 2010, he was sentenced to five years in prison for possessing heroin and dealing large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine out of an NYC hotel room. Just over a year later, he failed a drug test and pleaded