Vocational training and skill development programmes are treated as essential features of Prison correctional programmes. These help in improving work skills, discipline, sense of economic security, self confidence and self reliance and developing right attitude towards work and dignity of labour. Every year various traditional as well as modern vocational training programmes such as listed below are organized in prisons.
| LED bulb making | Driving | Food production |
| Computer courses | Tailoring | Beauty parlor management |
| Electrical wiring and plumbing | Toy making | Mushroom cultivation |
| Welding | Fashion designing | Health and Sanitation |
| Mobile phone technology | Readymade dress making | Rubber Tapping |
| Aluminium fabrication | Umbrella making | Soap making |
| Financial accounting | Paper bag making | Phenyl making |
| Vehicle maintenance and repair | Furniture making | Photography |
| A/C and refrigerator technician | Carpentry | Documentary Production |
| Solar energy designing and maintenance | Poultry Farming | Editing |
| JCB/Tipper/Triller Operations | Goat/Cow/Buffalo/Pig/Rabbit Farming | Flower Pot Production |
| Nettipattam Production | Coconut tree climbing | Agriculture Training |
