Joran van der Sloot allegedly stabbed in prison

LIMA, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Joran van der Sloot has been stabbed in prison, his wife and lawyer said Monday.

Van der Sloot, 27, is serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of Stepany Flore. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of American high school student Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.

Leidy Figueroa, who married van der Sloot in July at the Lima prison, where he's an inmate, claimed in an interview with RTL, a Dutch TV program in the Netherlands, that her husband was "seriously injured" after being stabbed in the shoulder and waist. She also claimed to have smuggled van der Sloot's bloody shirt out of the maximum security complex on Sunday.

Van der Sloot's attorney, Maximo Altez, also told RTL that his client's "wounds... are definitely 2 inches deep."

The director of Peru's National Penitentiary Institute, Jose Perez Guadalupe, dismissed Figueroa's claims as untrue. He also claimed van der Sloot's wife was a "compulsive liar" in an interview with 24-hour news station Channel N in which he questioned her sanity. "For starters, no woman in her right mind goes to a maximum-security prison and marries the biggest killer there."

A Peruvian prosecutor is investigating, van der Sloot's attorney said.