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In the 1973 movie The Last Detail, Seaman Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) is escorted by petty officers Billy "Badass" Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mule Mulhall (Otis Young) to the Portsmouth Naval Prison. Meadows has been sentenced to 8 years confinement for trying to steal $40 from a charity box. But because of his harsh sentence, the guards feel sorry for Meadows. They decide to show the naive sailor the time of his life before arriving on Seavey's Island (where another location substitutes for the actual brig).
In W.E.B. Griffin's novel "Semper Fi," Corporal Kenneth "Killer" McCoy is assigned to transport prisoners from San Diego, California to the Portsmouth Naval Prison.
The prison is referred to in Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, later filmed as Stand by Me.
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