WARSAW — Kosciusko County’s sheriff received good news on Thursday, March 14, in his mission to bolster a program designed to help jail inmates battle drug addiction. Sheriff Kyle Dukes appeared before the Kosciusko County Council with a grant request for the county’s Jail Chemical Addiction Program. The grant, totaling $163,260.40 would provide much-needed funding …read more.

The following is the third and final part of a three-part series on jail capacity, crime and punishment and personal liberty. WARSAW — Kosciusko County’s sheriff says the majority of his counterparts throughout the state deal with the same issue he does in terms of trying to keep the population in the county jail at …read more.

The following is the first part of a three-part series on jail capacity, crime and punishment and personal liberty. WARSAW — Newly-elected Kosciusko County Sheriff Kyle Dukes wasted little time, following the coming of the new year, pulling his personal brand out of the fire and stamping his unique trademark on the job of Kosciusko …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko County’s long-awaited program to address substance abuse in jail inmates was given recognition for its first milestone on Thursday, Feb. 28. The program, entitled Jail Chemical Addiction Program, is designed to provide much-needed treatment and education for incarcerated persons whose underlying issue might be addition. At a special ceremony in the basement …read more.

WARSAW — County Sheriff Kyle Dukes spoke to the Kosciusko County Council on Thursday night, Feb. 14 and touted his efforts to continue to reduce the county jail’s prison population and also invited county officials to come take a whiff of the place since his tenure began at the first of the year. “I want …read more.

SYRACUSE — Syracuse Police Officers and Kosciusko County Sheriff’s deputies were executing a felony warrant at 505 N. Huntington St. at approximately 4:50 p.m. today, Friday, Feb. 1 when shots were fired. Kosciusko County Sheriff Kyle Dukes made the decision to deploy the county SWAT Team in the execution of the warrant. SWAT officer made …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — This morning, Jan. 9, Kosciusko County Sheriff Kyle Dukes stood by as Judge David Cates reswore in the office’s merit deputies and jail confinement officers with the oath of office. “With a new sheriff in the county, I wanted my family to come and take the oath under my administration and under my name,” …read more.