So I've posted this story as a comment before. But I figured it could get a bit more attention. I hope this would help someone elses investigation of Liddy. I heard him tell this story in the summer of 2000.
I used to listen to his radio show locally here in FFX on WJFK. He broadcast out of the offices on 236, just west of fairfax city.
He told this pretty amazing, (but morally awfull) story about how he got one over on the prison guards.
The prison at that time was retrofitting the windows with a newer, bullet proof lexan plastic. In a deliberately demoralizing demonstration by the guards, they brought out a sample piece of this plastic and attempt to destroy it with repeated heavy blows of a sledge hammer/axe (I can't remember). To the chagrin of the prisoners, the hammer bounced off with out so much as scratching the plastic. After the demonstration, the guards taunted the prisoners saying things like "don't even try to escape, its impossible" and "you may as well give it up". This taunting sent Liddy's devious gears turning. A week later he devised a crude "hot-knife" from spare bits of wire, tin-foil and a lighter.
Since the guards were so confident that the lexan was impenetrable, they slacked off and and occasionally left the prisoners unsupervised. Liddy took advantage of one of these moments, and quickly deployed his hot-knife contraption on the lexan. The lexan was no match for the knife and he was able to create an opening big enough to boost a few of his fellow prisoners through. For some reason he was not able to get through. Perhaps the guards were coming...I can't remember. This story was told about 8 years ago.
I think eventually he was caught and put in solitary confinement for this. Amazingly he thinks this is another bragging point, as he speaks up to the "prisoners code" of not snitching as to who his accomplices were. As a sign of respect from the other prisoners, Liddy describes a method by which his fellow prisoners would pulverize a banana into a pudding like consistency and thinly spreading it out inside a plastic bag. The bag was then surreptitiously slid under the door of his cell.
He said it was the only thing he had to look forward to while in solitary.