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By Jarvis DeBerry The 1964 recording by folk singer Len Chandler, "I'm Goin' To Get My Baby Outa Jail," neatly summarizes what honorary New Orleanian Hannibal Lokumbe is doing with his music. Granted, the incarcerated men the composer has worked with at Orleans Parish Prison and correctional facilities in Philadelphia and St. Paul, Minn., wouldn't meet most people's definition of babies. But they are, for the most part, younger than the 64-year-old Lokumbe, and he is determin