In Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," in what types of activities are the prisoners engaged?

In Plato's work, Socrates does not really spend a great
deal of time going over the activities of the prisoners while chained inside the cave. 
Part of this might be because Socrates does not want to give much in the way of credit
to the lives of the prisoners while they are in the cave. This may be because the lives
they lead inside the caves are ones that deny the forms, the true essences of being in
the world.

The lives they live while in the cave consist of
being chained, staring at the cave walls, and watching the shadows of those who toil
above them.  The fact is that they are staring at shadows on the wall, and they consider
those to be reality. This is what distinguishes them.  This life is one that is
something that they have done from childhood. They live their lives in an unacknowledged
state.  The activities they engage in are ones where Plato's forms are
denied.

They are unable to understand what reality is and
what life exists outside the cave.  It is in this light that Socrates does not focus as
much attention on the activities of those who are chained inside as the real focus is on
the one who escapes the chains of the cave and sees reality for what it
is.