Summary
"I couldn't stand it," says [Jon Pfeiffer]. "I said, 'It ain't going to happen to me. I'm going to walk. I don't care how many people tell me it can't happen.'"
There's no way to track how many people with brain injuries are incarcerated, but Mickey believes the number is high. "This is what we're all about in this country: We want to make sure the person gets punished," he says. "It's pretty wellknown that the prison system is an alternative mental-health system."She says her son is working hard to pay his bills, but suffers fatigue from his injury. And when he tires, he loses his balance. "He can't handle working long hours at a job. That's why he needs the rent subsidy!" She thinks Dane County should help Pfeiffer pay his rent. "Isn't that a whole lot cheaper than putting him in a nursing home or some other institution?"See the full content of this document
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Starting Over
On the day that changed his life forever, Jon Pfeiffer had a fight with his girlfriend and, still angry, got into his car and sped off. It was after midnight.
Pfeiffer was doing more than 80 mph on Highway 41 near Little Chute when he saw the flashing lights of a squad car giving chase. He didn't pull over."I had gotten away too many times before," he explains. "I was a cocky bastard. I thought I could get away again."As he drove down an exit ramp, his car swerved, hit the guardrail and flipped. Pfeiffer wasn't wearing a seatbelt. His body hurled through the windshield, and he landed, head first, in a muddy ditch.He broke all of the fingers in his right hand; jammed his right shoulder and his right elbow; broke two bones in his right arm; cracked two vertebrae; and broke two ribs, which pierced his right lung, collapsing it.But it...See the full content of this document
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