LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Attorney General Jon Bruning says Nebraska’s next governor should remove attorneys from the Department of Correctional Services and place them in his office.

Bruning said Friday that the corrections lawyers showed they were “utterly incompetent” after they testified at a legislative hearing investigating why hundreds of prisoner sentences were miscalculated. Bruning leaves office in January.

Two attorneys, George Green and Sharon Lindgren, retired last month under the threat of being fired.

Green told lawmakers Thursday that he never read a Supreme Court opinion that specified the legally correct way to calculate an inmate’s release date. Because the ruling wasn’t followed, hundreds of inmates were released before they should have been.