Jailors stop car carelessly (7)

I believe the answer is:

captors

'jailors' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'stop car carelessly' is the wordplay.
'carelessly' indicates an anagram.
'stop'+'car'='stopcar'
'stopcar' is an anagram of 'CAPTORS'.

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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