Keep Marion Jones in Prison

Sending a message to young athletes is what this is all about. I would think that the shame of this ordeal and the time in jail would serve as a deterrent to most young atheletes.

By all means, keep Marion in jail - provided that all of the MEN who have lied and are lying about taking performance enhancing drugs get at minimum the same sentence! (They know who they are!)

Oh yes Mr. Starr let Marion Jones stay in prison and let your boy Clemens go scott free, because after all
he didn't use the juice. How typical of you people.

Oh please. Who'd she kill?

S.O.B's like this author and his opinion of commuting Marion Jones' sentence is the reason why most middle-class (and most blacks, regardless of economic stature) don't cry when some snotty Northeasterner is mugged and beaten to death. We all say "Sorry for his family" and "Good riddance" in the same breath.
Jones is in jail for trying to live up to her countries expectations and using unscrupulous judgement to meet them. The fact she is in jail is a perversity of justice and reinforces my distrust and distaste for the US legal system.
I bet this dispicable author has been busted for smoking pot and released once the effects wore off..... YET Jones should be in jail. New Englanders love to pick their "Black of the week" until they find out they are real people with real issues.
The only problem is that Black's issues get them jail time, and this author's issues get him a pat on the butt.
How manly is it to demand a longer prison sentence for a woman who lied? I bet your wife does the same thing everyday she tells you she loves you.
Snotty New Englanders are the reason why I moved to South Carolina. One day other men will join me in denouncing jerks like you and you will denounce our Black women no more.

Why is that Marion Jone is in jail for lying about taking steroids, while Bush is still free eventhough he lied to get us into a war in Iraq? Marion Jones' only casued a few opympic record to be altered while Bush caused the deaths of thousands of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and out the whole world in a food and energy crisis. IMO, Bush should give Jones the pardon and take her place at Ft. Worth instead.

Your argument would be a lot more persuasive if all the MEN who have been caught doing the exact same thing (and not just in track, but baseball, football, basketball, you name it) were also sitting in jail. But they aren't. Coincidence? I hate cheating in sports just as much as you do, but I hate the inconsistent application of punishment more.

ok i do have to say one thing. i wish i could read a story that dose not invovle someone's owen personal opeinen. i mean this looks more of the auther wanting to say hey i don;t want you to do this. everyday the news is getting more and more focosed on what the reporter thinks. i would love to see more articles on just plan and simple FACT!! not something someone thinks. i want to know what is going on in the world not what you think of what is going on. i want to make my owen opinon of it. this story here dose not show hardly any facts. it is all what the author thinks. to the auther and all other reporters stop telling people what you think and just stick to the facts and for the articles i have read where it is all based on facts i do thank you for those. to bad there are not more of them. if you want to make a statment about this write the president you are a reporter you know the address.

Since pro baseball players who have been involved in performance enhancing drugs are not serving time, but an amateur black woman is, I don't see the equality nor fairness in this (I'm white, BTW). I think it is complete BS that the pros go untouched while the courts pick on someone without resources to get out of their predicament. At least Marion had the guts to admit her wrong doing while the multi-million dollar a year primadonas continue to say they've done nothing wrong. If you're worried about the image a sports figure portrays, try focusing on pro sports instead of the amateurs.

We know that Marion Jones is not the only athlete to use steroids--she is however the ONLY one to admit it. Others can sit in front of congressional committees and deny, deny, deny and therefore forgo prison. Marion Jones had the courage to confess to her use and face the consequences when not one male athlete has done the same. Marion Jones repented, took her punishment and is forever disgraced in the public eyes. Yes, that sends a message to other steroid taking athletes???never admit to use because look what happened to Jones.

How very sanctimonious of the author and his ???burn the witch??? attitude. Marion is the only former multimillion dollar, contract steroid taking athlete in prison, and she happens to be a woman. Would this editor still have the same attitude if it was a start baseball player? When do you think we will ever see one of them admitting to steroid use?

I think the Editor does sound vindictive???thou doest protest loudly.

Sure.....dont commute her sentence......save it for the likes of Scooter Libby, Karl Rove and the likes....

So SHE should stay in jail, but people like Landis, baseball stars, football cheats....they get to go free? Marion owned up to her sins, and has paid far more already for them than the many men guilty of the same and worse. The same happened to Martha Stewart. I'm all for jail, but please be fair and convict the MEN too.

I do not agree with you. No man has ever suffered this greatly for committed an equivalent crime. This was not murder, she is not a dangerous person. There are numerous people (men) who have never been caught, she unfortunantly got caught and I found her punishment to be terribly severe. I think she has suffered enough. She was still a great athlete. I still respect her for that. I hope God will bless her, she certainly deserves it after all this crap she has been put through.

KEEP HER IN JAIL WHERE SHE BELONGS WITH ALL OTHER FELONS TO SERVE THEIR TIME FOR THEIR CONVICTIONS. SHE IS A TOTAL DISGRACE TO THE USA