They have plumbing as in the toilets flush and there’s a tap on the outside of the loo with a gutter, not a sink (to deter bathing etc). I think they have electricity via solar panel — it’s dim-ish blue lighting to ensure it’s harder to find veins to shoot up. Oh, and there’s a hose connection so someone can hose down the whole thing to clean it if it gets bad.

The restrooms are really well-optimized for public safety, used one in Burlington, VT, it did the job well!

See, I’m with you for violent crime, but it’s not just violent crime that sends you down the NYPD to DOC to ICE deportation pipeline.

See for instance the case of Castillo Maradiaga, a DACA recipient who got arrested for jaywalking in the Bronx and then sent over to ICE.

sad as it is, criminal statutes are enforced unevenly (if you’re gonna start ticketing people for jaywalking in New York without racial prejudice…that’s about 8 million people who’re jail-bound)

Not unopposed to violent felons being deported, but I’ll bring up the Exonerated Five as an example of people being wrongly convicted for violent felonies. Sadly that wasn’t a one-off and the trend continues even today — and I don’t think anyone should be denied a future in the US because an overeager DA was wanting to increase their conviction rate.

Not the US, but both Toronto and Montréal have had open gangway trains for a while now

That’s not always a good call — there are some track portions that are signaled for bidirectional service