They are designed to collapse in a collision. Not sure what year that design went into affect. The column is like a metal netting kinda like expanded metal so it will collapse and not get forced into the driver in a hard collision.
It may not be the whole column that's collapsed. Could be just the steering shaft from someone being rough with installation or something. Either way, it needs to be corrected. There's no way I'd drive one of these old Mopars with half the coupler shoes hanging out of the coupler body.