MIAMI -- Sunrise over the Julia Tuttle Causeway is widely considered a beautiful sight. But for the drivers crossing the Interstate 195 connector between Miami and Miami Beach, chances are they don't know who lurks beneath.

On this twilight, a state probation officer is checking -- as he does everyday -- to make sure three convicted sexual offenders are where they're supposed to be from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. the next day.

They are -- tightly tucked under the girders below the noise of the traffic.

Angel Sanchez is the only one who would speak to Local 10 about why he and the others, who have completed their sentences and are on probation, live under the bridge.

"I didn't have an address," Sanchez said in his native Spanish language. "Since I didn't have an address, they sent me here to live under the bridge. … This is an injustice. This is punishment."

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Sanchez's address on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's sexual predator Web site is listed as the Julia Tuttle Causeway. So is that of Marco Carrasquillo, another convicted sex offender.

Homeless shelters won't take them because of their status. If they could afford a place of their own, they would not be allowed to live anywhere near schools, parks or day-care centers.

So, they are living under the bridge by order of their probation officers, none of whom would speak to Local 10.

Notes from Sanchez's probation officer, obtained by Local 10, explain where he ordered Sanchez to live: "Go over the bridge. Once over the bridge, go under it towards the west side as far as he can go."

Sanchez said although he has served his time, he still feels like a prisoner.

"The only place that's 2,500 feet from a school is on the moon or in some other planet," Sanchez said.

Before taking up residence under the causeway, Sanchez and the two other sex offenders were initially told to live under the Dolphin Expressway flyover near 12th Street and 12th Avenue. It is used as a parking lot for a courthouse, but it is also across the street from Kristi House, a center for sexually abused children.

Trudy Novicki, executive director for the Kristi House, wasn't pleased when she learned about her new neighbors while reading the Miami New Times, which first reported the story.

"As a child advocate and someone that treats children that have been sexually abused, my answer is keep them in jail," Novicki said.

The local state probation office is headquartered in Opa-locka at the Florida Department of Corrections, where the motto outside the building reads: "committed to excellence." Local 10's Rad Berky asked if that included ordering people to live under bridges, but no one from the local office responded.

Gretl Plessinger, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman in Tallahassee, sent an e-mail to Local 10 saying, "It's ultimately up to the offender to find an address, but if an offender doesn't, he/she must be at a location compliant with state court orders during curfew hours."

On this particular morning, the three sex offenders living under the causeway begin their day, knowing that whatever they do, they must return when night falls.

"Ten years, I'm not going to be able to live there," Sanchez said. "I'm going to die there underneath the bridge."