Yizar v. Ault

Thompson, Justice.

Marvin Yizar is currently incarcerated in the general population of the Valdosta Correctional Institution where he is serving a life sentence for murder. He filed a pro se petition for writ of mandamus and affidavit of indigency, in which he alleged that he had served in law enforcement in the metro Atlanta area for 20 years and that he has been attacked several times in that facility because he has arrested and prosecuted many of the inmates with whom he is housed. He sought the writ to compel Allen Ault, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, to transfer him to…