Rose Gets Good Reports in Prison

Pete Rose is earning 11 cents an hour working in a prison machine shop and isn’t playing for the inmates’ softball team yet, the assistant warden said Thursday.

Rose, serving a five-month sentence at the Federal Work Camp in Marion, Ill., spends eight hours a day welding and fabricating metal with 70 other prisoners.

“His work supervisor says he has been getting good reports; he gets in there and works just as hard as the rest of them,” assistant warden Randy Davis said.

Baseball’s all-time hit leader has also been watching the inmate softball teams, but hasn’t been able to play because his knee is healing from surgery July 20, Davis said.

Davis said Rose is treated like any other inmate--doing basic chores eight hours a day and sharing a dormitory cubicle with another prisoner. Rose is scheduled to be released Jan. 7, then spend three months at a halfway house in Cincinnati.