Sentence:  "How long did she do after I left the joint" / "About a year or so. They wanted to parole her. ..." Mae wrinkled her forehead. “It's hard to figure out, sometimes.” Again she frowned heavily. “I don't give a damn myself—I'm a thief, and nothing they can ever do will hurt me. But Mrs. Loring, now, she was different. That <WSD>jolt</WSD> did hurt her bad. ..." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A long prison sentence.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MUbeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA371&dq=%22a+Jolt%22+prison%7Cjail%7Cupstate%7Cpen%7CJoliet&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAlsmPsrPbAhUE-lQKHb60DacQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=%22a%20Jolt%22%20prison%7Cjail%7Cupstate%7Cpen%7CJoliet&f=false 2015, (Eric Partridge), "A Dictionary of the Underworld", page 371]</ref>