They’ve got good doctors at the Clark County Detention Center.

That’s our response to the news that Clark County Recorder Frances Deane is using a recent surgery to dodge showing up to be properly arrested for allegedly selling documents maintained by her office to private businessmen. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Karen Bennett-Haron generously gave Deane until Friday to post a modest $20,000 bail or be arrested.

A mere $20,000? When Deane is accused of taking at least $44,000 and a $10,000 unreported campaign contribution? She shouldn’t have any trouble raising bail, should she? Good thing Bennett-Haron won’t be handling the felony trial Deane faces on 19 counts of wrongdoing.

Yes, we at Various Things & Stuff are rather hard-hearted when it comes to public corruption, especially with repeat violators like Deane. She conspired with others (including once and would-be future Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren to start an Internet company to sell public documents online. The Ethics Commission extracted a $5,000 fine for a willful violation in 2004.

It was then that Deane decided to sell the documents to businessmen, and let them sell those documents to title companies. (Republican activist Monty Miller, who met Deane at a GOP fund-raiser, allegedly flipped documents he bought from Deane for $95,000.)

An eight-month Metro Police investigation turned up more buyers, who are cooperating with police. That means that Deane is sunk when this matter goes to trial, if she doesn’t strike a plea bargain first. Either way, thanks and kudos go out to the detectives of Metro’s Intelligence Section, Sheriff Bill Young and District Attorney David Roger for ridding county government of a corrupting cancer.

Oh, we mean allegedly, of course. Deane hasn’t been convicted of anything yet, and of course she’s innocent until proven guilty. Her earlier admission of wrongdoing before the Ethics Commission isn’t proof that she sold her office — cheap — to some unscrupulous businessmen. She deserves the presumption of innocence, no matter how galling and obscene her actions.

But when — oh, excuse us, we meant to say if — Deane is convicted, she should go to jail for a long, long time. We understand she just got out of the hospital, and has been playing up her illness. No problem.

They’ve got good doctors at the Clark County Detention Center.