No wonder crime on the subways continues to be a scourge: The same lawbreaking fiends keep being cuffed, only to be cut loose again and again.

Monday’s Post report revealed the shocking stats : 63 transit terrors with more than 5,000 busts between them, for crimes ranging from robbery to assault to sex crimes.

Yet, thanks to lenient judges, the no-bail law and pro-crime prosecutors who drop or downgrade charges, the vast majority are still walking the streets — only about five are now locked up.

Cops are well-acquainted with these chronic menaces and do their part to get them off the streets, making quick busts when one of them breaks the law ( again ).

But they’re spat back out almost as quickly the NYPD can haul them in, often after getting less than a slap on the wrist.

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