PRAJA's Activities:

• Dissemination of information through documents about criminal justice issues (with special focus on prison)
• Making films for greater awareness about prison and punishment
• Providing resource back-up and training for prison officers both in India and other countries
• Conducting Seminars and Workshops in India and South Asia, to identify common problems and their solutions which form the basis for recommendations to government agencies
• Developing modules for implementing specific projects (e.g. women in prison, juvenile justice)
• Implementing programmes for 'better access to justice' and presenting viable schemes to government agencies
• Contributing towards developing 'alternative' and more constructive models for handling offenders (especially vulnerable groups) from PRAJA's experiences in other countries

• Training of prison staff (at all levels from IGs and DIGs to Warders or guarding staff) and arranging Conferences and workshops for promoting a debate about prisons and punishment.
  
• Researching and addressing issues relating to the mental health of prisoners particularly women and children in prison
  
• Observing, documenting and addressing through projects/programmes the experiences of women in the criminal justice system
  
• Preparing modules and manuals for the setting up of Counselling Units and Mediation Centres for vulnerable groups in distress
• Collecting and documenting good practices wherever they exist and propogating their use to State agencies and NGO's e.g. Community Service, Open 'Prisons' and Farms.