Douglas drug-dealer son freed from jail

MICHAEL DOUGLAS is set to be reunited with his son following the convi c t ed drug dealer ’s re l ease from prison after almost seven years.

The actor has long campaigned for the release of his eldest child Cameron, 37, and raised the issue three years ago in his Emmy award acceptance speech for Behind The Candelabra.

Cameron, a former heroin addict, was jailed for five years in 2010 for selling methamphetamine. The following year, he received a further four and a half years after admitting possessing drugs in prison and subsequently spent two years in solitary confinement.

For two years, Douglas was barred from seeing his son, but in January he said: “I see him twice a month now because he’s incarcerated closer to our home. He’s a drug addict, but he’s done more than his fair share of time for it.”

People magazine said today that Cameron, who is Douglas’s son with his exwife Diandra and was expelled from school at 13 for selling marijuana, is living in a halfway house in New York.

There was no comment from Douglas, 71, who lives in New York with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and their two children, Dylan, 15, and Carys, 13. In 2013, Douglas told New York magazine: “I have gone from being a very disappointed, but loving father who felt his son got what was due him, to realising that Lady Justice’s blindfold is really slipping.”

In an essay written for Huffington Post in prison, Cameron wrote: “Our prisons are filled with non-violent drug offenders who are losing much of what is relevant in life. This outdated system pays little, if any, concern to the disease of addiction, and instead punishes it more harshly than many violent crimes.”

It has been reported that he plans to write a memoir about his time in prison and struggle with drug addiction.