When a prisoner initiates a civil action in a federal district court should that court deem the prisoner a resident of the state in which she/he resided prior to confinement or the state of his/her place of confinement?

When a prisoner brings a civil action in a federal district court asserting Bivens-type claims does that court have jurisdiction to transfer those Bivens claims to another judicial district when those claims could not have been originally brought in that district since none of the named defendants reside or work in that district and none of the events and omissions giving rise to the action are situatd in that district?

When a prisoner initiates a civil action in a federal district court should that court deem the prisoner a resident of the state in which she/he resided prior to confinement or the state of his/her place of confinement?