Myles Sanderson had racked up quite a criminal record in his three decades on the planet — 59 convictions in all.

And yet, time and time again, Sanderson was given chance after chance after chance.

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He was wanted for a parole violation when he and his brother Damien unleashed an unspeakable slaughter in Saskatchewan on Sept. 4, 2022, when the roiling cauldron of rage within him boiled over. By the end of the day, 10 people were stabbed to death and others were seriously injured.

But Sanderson — who died after a massive manhunt — is not alone.

From Atlantic to Pacific, the justice system is revealing itself to be out of touch and far too accommodating to repeat offenders.

Here are a few examples.

DON’T CALL ME A CHILD KILLER

Damien Starrett beat his one-year-old son Ares to death with his fists in 2019.

He is a child killer, right? He also punched his 5-year-old daughter twice in the head.

At the Edmonton Remand Centre, the staff allegedly threatened him and called him a child killer before his release on bail.

His lawyer claimed a guard told Starret: “You are a baby killer (and) they are letting you go. You’re a piece of s—.”

What to do? Starrett was convicted of manslaughter in the death of his son. His infant son. So the judge hearing his case reduced his sentence.

Justice John Henderson took Starret’s hardship into account on Tuesday and sentenced him to seven years in prison — before reducing his remaining time to serve under four-and-a-half years.

On Nov. 14, 1987, Patrice Mailloux shot and killed 16-year-old Laura Davis as she was closing her family’s Moncton convenience store.

He was sentenced to life in prison and released in 2016 on day parole.

Now, the 67-year-old killer has breached his parole and a Canada-wide warrant has been issued for his arrest. Corrections, oddly, has not released a recent photo of the killer.

Laura Davis, Brenda’s sister, finds that bizarre.

“So you would think that they would really want to find him, because what’s he going to do? He’s going to run out of money,” said Davis. “What’s he going to do to get money? All he knows is crime. So how do you get money when you’re on the run?”

In fact, the killjoys at CSC even asked Davis to remove a recent photo of Mailloux from her Facebook page.

Randy Beauchesne, 55, was paying for parking for a friend at Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital on June 13, 2022, when tragedy struck.

Cops say Kevin Witchekan, 39, allegedly stabbed Beauchesne in the head with a screwdriver. Detectives say the attack was random.

Beauchesne died in hospital in early August after his family took him off life-support.

Witchekan has been charged with second-degree murder.

According to the Edmonton Sun, Witchekan yawned and rolled his eyes as he was sentenced to eight years in prison for stabbing to death drug dealer Daniel Barata, 41. He pleaded guilty to knock the charges down from second-degree murder to manslaughter.

The judge called it a “vicious” attack and he was banned from possessing weapons for the rest of his life.

Winnipeg serial killer John Paul Ostamas was given a break when Manitoba’s highest court overturned his 75-year sentence.

Now, he can apply for parole after serving 25 years in prison.

Ostamas — who murdered three homeless men in a one-month rampage in 2015 — is a beneficiary of the Supreme Court of Canada striking down a Criminal Code section allowing so-called “parole stacking” in cases involving multiple first- or second-degree murder charges.

Savanna Pikuyak, 22, didn’t know the man she agreed to rent a room from on Facebook had a problem with women.

Now, that man — Nikolas Ibey, 33 — is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Pikuyak at his Ottawa condo.

Ibey was on probation after he was convicted and sentenced in January for assaulting his former girlfriend, breaking and entering, uttering threats and failing to comply with his release order.

Pikuyak was killed just four days after arriving in the capital.

Ibey’s former girlfriend told the Ottawa Citizen Ibey smashed down the door of her house with an axe — even after she took a restraining order against him. She remains terrified of him

She told probation officials: “I said, ‘This is how women end up dead.’ I told the probation officer that. But now — Holy s—-. I never dreamt ….”

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