Summarize the section titled, Punishment, from Foucault's, Discipline and Punish.

Punishment, traces the concerns voiced by eighteenth century reformers of punishment. The reformers, who were mostly lawyers from within the system, argued that there should be a clear and unarbitrary link between a crime and its penalty, punishment should work through “signs” that have a deterrent effect on the general population, and there should be access to work and education. However, Foucault suggests that these reformers were self-interested; the insistence on civil rights was a product of the rise of the middle-class, indicating the social and political changes that were about to take place in the French Revolution. These reformers sought to create a more efficient form of power that functioned like a machine, a more even distribution of punishment that individualized criminals while insisting on the “humanity” of the criminal, which was really a new method of control.