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Deliberate Indifference, Willfully Blind, and the Ostrich Instruction: A Musing  


Author:  Fred Cohen.


Source: Volume 13, Number 05, January/February 2012 , pp.75-75(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

To avoid the acquisition of easily obtained, lifeprotecting information in order to avoid creation of an “actual knowledge” duty is, in my view, willful blindness and the equivalent of actual knowledge for the purpose of deliberate indifference.

Keywords: Madoff, Rakoff, “flags of suspicion”

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

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