JAMAL
NASRUDEEN snakes wires into a breaker box at the Trumbull
Center apartment project in Hartford. Nasrudeen, who graduated
from Prince Tech in 1999 and is an apprentice electrician,
has failed the state license exam three times.
(STEPHEN DUNN)
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DAMION MURRAY
of East Hartford, an apprentice at T&T Electrical Contractors
Inc., installs fluorescent light fixtures in the ceiling
of the renovated corridor at East Hartford High School. Murray
has been with T&T for four years. He has failed the state
license test three times.
(STEPHEN DUNN)
Copyright 2005, Hartford Courant
ALBERT
DELEON is a manager of Mr. Sparkle Car Wash in Hartford.
Any hope he had of becoming an electrician was lost when
the court took away his driver's license after a series
of street racing and drunken-driving arrests.
(MICHAEL MCANDREWS)
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