Freddy Wayne Hurley, Texas prisoner # 453088, filed the instant 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint against employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division challenging the conditions of confinement for prisoners in protective custody. The district court dismissed his complaint as frivolous and for failure to state a claim on April 24, 2002. Hurley did not file his notice of appeal until at the earliest June 19, 2002. Hurley has not shown that the district court clearly erred in concluding that documents mailed by Hurley to the district court in the proper time period were not in fact his notice of appeal. See Billiot v. Dolphin Servs., Inc., 225 F.3d 515, 517 (5th Cir. 2000). The notice of appeal was therefore untimely, and, as a result, this court lacks jurisdiction over this appeal. *789 Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(1); Dison v. Whitley, 20 F.3d 185, 186 (5th Cir. 1994).

APPEAL DISMISSED.