A prisoner released early has told how he's living in a tent under a bridge over the M4 motorway. "I would rather reoffend and go back to prison than be homeless," said Warren Rees, 39. "When I was behind bars, it's scary.
There's violence happening, and it's hard. But out here you are all on your own. "You're worried in case someone does something to your tent, but in prison the door's locked.
Job's done." Warren is one of the 1,700 prisoners released early earlier this month after mounting pressure on UK prisons. He was freed from Bridgend Parc Prison in Wales.
Underneath the bridge, which has cars running over it, there is little protection from the wind, which gusts through beneath.
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