Peruvian prison officials denied the allegations.
Máximo Altez, his attorney, told RTL Boulevard Monday that his client had suffered "wounds that are definitely 2 inches deep."
Van der Sloot's wife, Leidy Figueroa, told the Dutch-language TV program that her husband was stabbed in the shoulder and waist by fellow prisoners. She also said she visited him Sunday in prison and smuggled out a bloody polo shirt as evidence.
Figueroa, who met the Dutch national in prison and married him in July, gave birth to his child, a daughter, in September.
Altez said conditions in Peru's notorious Challapalca prison are poor and fellow prisoners apparently believe it would be closed if van der Sloot, a high-profile foreign prisoner, dies.
Van der Sloot was transferred in August to the maximum security prison in the Andes in Lima in August. Prison officials said he was moved from the more relaxed prison outside Lima for threatening the warden after guards confiscated a mobile phone he had in his cell, the BBC reported.
Van der Sloot charged that he was given the phone by the warden as a "set up."
The stabbing incident was being investigated by a Peruvian prosecutor, his lawyer said.
Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe, head of the National Penitentiary Institute, denied the allegations, telling the Lima newspaper El Comercio that Figueroa is a "compulsive liar" who has raised false claims in the past.
"Absolutely nothing has happened," he said. "It is not the first time in recent weeks that she has given false information to the press."
The prison official said such tales were inevitable, coming from Figeruoa's "complex personality."
"In the first place, no girl in her right mind would go to a maximum security prison and marry its most notorious killer," Perez Guadalupe said.
The 27-year-old Dutch national is serving a 28-year sentence for killing a Peruvian business student, Stephany Flores, in his hotel room in 2010 and briefly fleeing the country.
Investigators suggested that van der Sloot was angry that the 21-year-old Flores, while briefly alone in his hotel room, had apparently found information on his computer about the Holloway case. He also stole her money and credit cards.
Van der Sloot has been arrested twice in Aruba, but never charged, in connection with the disappearance of Holloway, who vanished while on a school outing with classmates in May 2005. She was last seen leaving a bar on the island with van der Sloot. Her body was never found.
In 2010, van der Sloot was charged in the United States for allegedly attempting to extort $250,000 from Holloway's mother, Beth.
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